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	Gilbert White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilbert White (July 18, 1720 – June 26, 1793) was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
		White's frequent accounts of a tortoise inherited from his aunt in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne forms the basis for Verlyn Klinkenborg's book, Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006).
		A biography of White, by Richard Mabey was published by Ebury Press in 1986, and won the Whitbread Biography of the Year award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilbert_White (399 words)

	§16. Gilbert White’s "Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne". XI. Letter-Writers. Vol. 10. The Age of ...
		For some twenty years or more (1767–87), White wrote a series of letters to Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington, giving a remarkable account of the chief instances of the special habits of animals and of natural phenomena which he was daily observing.
		Barrington, in 1770, suggested the publication of White’s observations; but, although White thought favourably of the advice, he was diffident and did not prepare his materials for press until January, 1788.
		White’s was an uneventful life as we usually understand the phrase; but it was also a full and busy one, the results of which have greatly benefited his fellow men.
	www.bartleby.com /220/1116.html (795 words)

	Gilbert White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert White (July 18, 1720 - June 26, 1793) was a pioneering naturalist (naturalist: A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)) and ornithologist (ornithologist: A zoologist who studies birds).
		White obtained his deacon's orders in 1747 and became vicar of Moreton Pinkney in Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire: northamptonshire (abbreviated northants) is a landlocked county in central...
		White is regarded as England's first ecologist (ecologist: A biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/gilbert_white (524 words)

	Gilbert F. White - A Short Biography
		Gilbert F. White is the Gustavson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Colorado, a position he has held since 1980.
		In 1946 Gilbert White was named President of Haverford College (the youngest college president in the United States at the time), where he served until 1955 when he returned to the University of Chicago to become Chair of the Department of Geography.
		Gilbert White is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
	www.colorado.edu /hazards/gfw/bio.html (866 words)

	Gilbert White - Natural History Museum
		Gilbert White, curate at the Hampshire village of Selborne, was one of the first English naturalists to make careful observations of his surroundings and record these observations in a systematic way.
		White was thus the first to distinguish the willow wren as three species - chiffchaff, willow warbler and wood warbler - largely on the basis of their songs.
		Gilbert White's journals, which he kept for most of his life (the Garden Kalender 1751-67, the Flora Selborniensis 1766 and the Naturalist's Journal 1768-93) are unique in their detail and the length of time they span.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/science-of-natural-history/biographies/gilbert-white/gilbert-white.html (692 words)

	Timothy--a famous and not to be forgotten tortoise
		White was the first English language writer of natural history and his writing deserves the same level of recognition of that of Thoreau, Audubon, and Darwin.
		White was the first to write and publish first hand natural history accounts; he wrote of simple everyday things-- changing seasons, hedgehogs and hedgerows, a horse surviving a lightning strike, and of Timothy coming out of hibernation in his Selborne garden.
		White never did get to the answer, but the key point is that while noted scholars debated academic issues from desks in their libraries, White attempted to learn natural history directly from personal observation.
	www.tortoisereserve.org /Sundry/Timothy_Body2.html (2241 words)

	Gilbert White
		White saw nature with both the trained eye of scientist and countryman, having the restless intelligence of the one, and the contented homeliness and simplicity of the other, and the essential honesty of both.
		Gilbert White (1720-93), British naturalist and clergyman, spent most of his life in his birthplace, Selborne, where he was curate.
		White was borne in the Selborne vicarage in 1720, educated at Basingstoke, then Oriel College, Oxford.
	www.heureka.clara.net /art/gilbert-white.htm (731 words)

	White's Thrush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White's Thrush (Zoothera dauma) is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae.
		White's Thrushes nest in trees, laying three or four dull green eggs in a neat cup nest.
		This bird was named after the English naturalist Gilbert White.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White's_Thrush (249 words)

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		Gilbert came in later in the morning, and he and White had a conversation in which they discussed the fact that the International was examining the question of his entitlement to them and would advise him directly of their conclusion.
		White's action violated the constitution and bylaws in failing to give notice to Gilbert that he was in arrears of dues, at any time and in rejecting his tender of dues.
		Gilbert's reinstate- ment must be conditioned on his payment of all dues arrearages retroactive to 1 May 1984 and Local 707 must be directed to accept such payment, even if made under protest by Gilbert, in order to protect his position in the event he chooses to litigate the dues issue further.
	www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/278/278-39.txt (8534 words)

	Gilbert White, naturalist
		Gilbert White took holy orders in 1747, and became curate of his home town of Selborne in Southern England (1756).
		The harvest mouse nests in the longest grasses in meadows, in a tennis ball-sized nest.
		White was apparently the first to notice that the mouse closes up the hole in the side after it enters or leaves its nest.
	www.todayinsci.com /W/White_Gilbert/White_Gilbert.htm (721 words)

	Natural History of Selborne exhibit, interrupted by Loma Prieta earthquake, on view again after more than a decade: 1/01
		White's observations about the flora and fauna around Selborne were published the same year heads began to roll in France.
		"White is an enormously talented, adept writer whose simplest journal entries about the weather and what he happened to see on such and such a day all have a kind of quality of poetry about them," Carnochan said.
		White was born in Selborne in 1720 and died there in 1793.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/2001/january31/white-131.html (1014 words)

	Gilbert F. White to Receive 2000 NAS Public Welfare Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		White was chosen for his enduring fundamental contributions to the study of environmental issues and for his positive impact on the welfare of society.
		White was born in Chicago on November 26, 1911, and was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his B.S. degree in 1932, his S.M. in 1933, and his Ph.D. in 1942.
		Among White's many citations for achievement are the Daly Medal of the American Geographical Society, the Iben Award of the American Water Resources Association, and the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Association of American Geographers.
	www4.nationalacademies.org /news.nsf/isbn/12151999b?OpenDocument (819 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Open Country
		Gilbert White is often called England's first ecologist and lived in the quiet Hampshire village of Selborne for most of his life.
		In the graveyard where Gilbert is buried, Keith Noble of the RSPB talks about the habits of these summer visitors and explains that Gilbert was convinced at one point they were too small to migrate, and must merely hibernate through the winter.
		Gilbert White described the creatures as lighting an "amorous fire" and, as it gets dark, Charlotte spots the tell-tale signal that the female is waiting for a male to fly down from the skies: they glow by mixing two chemicals in their abdomen, an effect known as bioluminescence.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/opencountry_20020817.shtml (882 words)

	Publications about Gilbert F. White
		For this volume, Gilbert White was one of fourteen geographers asked to recount his experience and share his insights as a geographer.
		Gilbert White's influence on floodplain management practice in the United States can hardly be overestimated.
		While White's academic career is distinguished, it is his commitment to public policy that dramatically expands the significance of contributions.
	www.colorado.edu /ibs/hazards/gfw/published_about.html (732 words)

	Gilbert White: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert White (July 18, EHandler: no quick summary.
		White was born at Selborne Selborne quick summary:
		White obtained his deacon's orders in 1747 and became vicar of Moreton Pinkney in Northamptonshire Northamptonshire quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/gilbert_white.htm (1059 words)

	Gilbert White
		Gilbert White's daily life was practically unbroken by any great changes or incidents; for nearly half a century his pastoral duties, his watchful country walks, the assiduous care of his garden, and the scrupulous posting of his calendar of observations made up the essentials of a full and delightful life, but hardly of a biography.
		The next year White sketched to Pennant the project of "a natural history of my native parish, an annus historico-naturalis, comprising a journal for a whole year, and illustrated with large notes and observations.
		The encyclopaedic interest in nature, although in White's day culminating in the monumental synthesis of Buffon, was also disappearing before the analytic specialism inaugurated by Linnaeus; yet the catholic interests of the simple naturalist of Selborne fully reappear a century later in the greater naturalist of Down, Charles Darwin.
	www.nndb.com /people/492/000096204 (866 words)

	Gilbert White and Recording: Past, Present and Future :: University of Southampton
		Gilbert White (1720-1793) is regarded by many as England’s first ecologist and the founding father of modern scientific recording.
		Since the days of White’s recording, the impact of man’s activities has lead to significant change and it is therefore vitally important to record, monitor and provide the evidence for policies that encourage the long-term conservation of our natural resources and the development of the biological sciences.
		The Development Office worked closely with the Gilbert White and Oates Museum to fundraise for the conference and we were delighted to work in partnership with Vitacress Salads who were one of the main sponsors of the event.
	www.soton.ac.uk /alumni/development/current_projects/gilbert_white.html (344 words)

	Union County Obituaries WHITE
		White had been sick for many months, and at last was compelled to pay the universal debt of mankind.
		White was a merchant in Union 22 years ago, a conscientious honorable Christian man. His wife was brought here from Walla Walla five years ago, and died at Hot Lake.
		White and his son were owners of a fine fruit ranch at Touchet which they had been living on for several years.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/white.htm (576 words)

	Majority of town's workers live elsewhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert's median household income in 2003 was $68,083, about $23,000 above that of wage earners elsewhere in greater Phoenix, according to town statistics.
		White purchased a house in Power Ranch in 2003 after refurbishing and selling his previous house that was in a revitalization area of Chandler just outside of Gilbert.
		White paid $60,000 for the home, added $12,000 in upgrades and sold it three years later for about $150,000, he said.
	www.azcentral.com /community/gilbert/articles/0421gr-affworkersZ12.html (618 words)

	White-power gang shook growing town to its core (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert Police Department detectives have told town officials on several occasions that Gilbert has at least a decade of history with gangs and hate crimes, including White-supremacist gangs.
		Gilbert may one day be viewed as a melting pot, with rapid growth bringing neighbors of many races and cultures.
		Each year, Gilbert's White Power would take on a different name to identify the graduating high school class and their membership in the gang, police said.
	www.azcentral.com /community/gilbert/articles/0317gr-diversitydevildogsZ12.html (884 words)

	Tortoise Trust Web - New light on an old tortoise - Gilbert White's Selborne tortoise re-discovered.
		White knew the tortoise prior to obtaining possession of it from his many visits to his relatives who resided at Delves House, Ringmer, where the animal lived (Wright, 1917).
		White's, for the loan of which I am indebted to her kindness, may be a third: but it seems to me, with our present knowledge on the subject, that it must be regarded as distinct.
		The tortoise was described in White's 'Selborne', and presented to the Museum in 1858 by Mrs.
	www.tortoisetrust.org /articles/algeria.html (3547 words)

	SelborneWakes
		The Wakes in Selborne was the home of the naturalist Gilbert White who wrote the greatly loved classic Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789).
		In White's time the external appearance of that wing was the same light malmstone as the rest, see old picture here.
		Gilbert White's bed-spread and hangings were made by his aunts.
	www.astoft.co.uk /selbornewakes.htm (203 words)

	Findon Village Antiquities www.findonvillage.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert was born in Selborne, amidst the chalk downs of Hampshire, on 18th July 1720.
		Gilbert was a cheery and genial companion, and communicated his findings to others and gained a good reputation.
		Gilbert's rattling conveyance would have often been uncomfortably crowded; in summer the atmosphere would have been oppressive inside the jogging vehicle traversing the downs.
	www.findonvillage.com /0067_passing_through_findon_in_december.htm (1458 words)

	Learn more about Gilbert White in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert White (July 18, 1720 - June 26, 1795) was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist.
		He believed in distinguishing birds by observation rather than by collecting specimens, and was thus one of the first people to seperate the similar-looking Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler.
		His house in Selborne, The Wakes, now contains the Gilbert White Museum, as well as the Oates Memorial Museum, commemorating Frank and Laurence Oates.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/gi/gilbert_white.html (298 words)

	Poet: Gilbert White - All poems of Gilbert White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gilbert White (1720-1793) was born and died in Selborne, Hampshire, England.
		Gilbert White took holy orders in 1747, and became curate of his home town of...
		Gilbert White was a clergyman and his home was the “Wakes”,...
	www.poemhunter.com /gilbert-white/poet-6863 (278 words)

	Association of American Geographers
		She met Gilbert White in Washington and they decided to marry, but only after the uncertainty of his service as a conscientious objector was resolved.
		Typical of her life is that after she heard a cancer probably would make her next year terminal she chose to spend parts of it in an International Geographical Union field trip in Australia, and in giving her grandchildren their first experience of camping in a wilderness area.
		The Fund will serve the purposes Anne White held dear if it enables people, regardless of any formal training in geography, to engage in useful field studies and to have the joy of working along side their partners.
	www.aag.org /Grantsawards/Annewhitefund.html (778 words)

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